Notifications of Removal from School Roll - Find a freedom of information request

Request

1. The number of notifications of removal from school roll (e.g. completion of notification forms) made to the local authority in each of the following school years, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19 to date, broken down by school.

2. The number of notifications of removal from school roll made to the local authority in each of the following school years, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19 to date, broken down by the reason given for removing the child from the school roll.

3. The number of child missing education (CME) referrals made to the local authority in each of the following school years, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19 to date.  

Decision

1&2. The below table contains information in relation to FOI0198. The information included in this report is for academic years 2016-2017 and 2017-2018. Information relating to 2014/2015, 2015/2016 academic years is not included as data was not collected in this time frame. 2018/2019 data has not been included as this is not a complete dataset.

Unfortunately LCC have not been able to include reasons for removal from school roll as LCC do not collect that information.

 

Notification of Leavers and CME Notifications by Academic Year

Academic Year

Notification of Leavers by Academic Year

2016-2017

5584

2017-2018

6753

Grand Total

12337

 

3.

CME Referrals

Year

Total

14/15

968

15/16

1143

16/17

1489

17/18

1214

18/19

1314 (to date)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference number
FOI0198
Date request received
14 June 2019
Date of decision
17 July 2019